River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-07-28
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The bell IN the CathoHe churcn at
Amigo weighs 2f142 pounds.
The Oshkosh fishermen have given
out that they viii fish with nets after
Aug. l, and contest the law if arrested.
Marshfield has received contributions
in amount more thar equahng the loss
sustained by its citizens. excepting the
losses of the Upham firm.
n. c. Metzer's sawmill. at Lena, to-
gether with his stock on hand, burned
Tuesday morning. The loss is $4,000,
with 81 GOO insurance.
William Seegar. OF BAYFIELD,. was ar
raigned and a second time found guilty
Of conducting saloon without license.
He was fined $50 and costs.
j. +. Olessner (colorcd), of Trenton.
is happy over the fact of his baby hay
ing received the prize at a recent Wau-
pm baby show, for the prettiest baby.
Hay Is so scarce around Berlin that
marsh grass is being sold at from $3.50
to 50 an acre, or about as much as
the land was considered to worth wear
ago.
William White, of Eau Claire. was
poisoned by wearing colored stockings.
the pigment in which contained arsenic,
He narrowly escaped death from the
effects.
Chas. A Fleiscber, a Sheboygan
baker, died from the bursting of blood
vessel in his brain. VIM. Springborn,
living near the same place. died of sun
stroke.
There is a movement on foot for the
city of Oshkosh to purchase the water
works plant, which IS at present owned
by a few wealthy citizens, and valued
at $4,000.
The assessors at Racine have de-
cided that pleasure boats are taxable
personal property They have hereto
fore been exempt. There are about
seventy-iive of them.
While handling n small revolver
Charley Slatery, of Washburn, accident
" shot his little sister The ball went
in ON one side Of the nose and came
out at the other The wound is not
serious one.
Shortly after o'clock Saturday
morning. Andrew Rosebleck, of Men
asha, was frightfully injured by the ex-
plosion Of a horse pistol with which he
had been shooting birds.
The man run over by train near
Chippewa Falls AID mangled almost be-
yond recognition is supposed to have
been farm hand named Dan Ferguson.
\ bottle of whisky and laudanum We're
found on his person.
Andrew Merton, an old resident of
Oshkosh, secured a divorce, his wife
having left him to reside with daugh-
ter in Nebraska. The matter Of alimony
IS under advisement. The plaintiffs
estate is worth from $4,000 TO $4,000.
The Buelow, house, in Buena Vista,
Marathon county, was burned by an
incendiary. A murder was committed
there recently, and it is thought the OBJ
ject was to make away with Augusta
Buelow. the principal witness. She,
however. was not sleeping in the house
the time.
| A female tramp, accompanied by
I eight or nine men. has been camping
out in the woods at West Menasha for
week past Sheriff Gilmore. of Menasha,
went out and captured her after chasing
her for long distance through fields
and over fences. She was sentenced to
/ jail at Oshkosh.
Mr. Gowdey. formerly of The Beaver
Dam Argus, lost his all in the Hurley
fire. He was engaged in the publicat-
ion of The Hurley Miner, under the
firm name of Gowdey and Goodall.
Goodall was for many years the editor
of The Green Lake County Democrat,
at Markesan.
The damage done to the factory and
buildings of the Wolf River Manu-
featuring company. at Ostrander, by
/ the cyclone on the 10th inst, has been
very much exaggerated in the news
paper reports. The total loss will not
exceed 500.
A section of 100 feet of the new
water-power dam at Kaukauna has been
completed. This wall is laid dry, is
| fourteen feet wide at the base, four feet
on top, and eighteen feet high. built of
stone. The inside win be lined with
three-inch plank. making it the most
substantial dam on the Fox river.
Pension Agent Judd, of Milwaukee,
announces that the payments for the ifs
cal year which is now closed are the
largest ever known in the history of his
office. The amount paid out is over
81, 000,0 600. The largest payments for
any one month were for the month of
June, when $4,000 were disbursed.
The number of pensioners receiving
payment at the Milwaukee office is 21,-
600. OF this list twenty or thirty are
Mexican war survivors.
At Racine the prohibitionist have
been quietly at work making arrange
ments for the organization of law and
other league. The sole purpose of the
organization is to close saloons ON Sun
day and to prevent liquor dealers sell
ing to minors. The society viii have
officers elected and be ready for busI-
ness on the first Sunday. in August.
Some saloon men say that if the saloons
are to be closed on Sunday, butchers,
milkmen, street-car companies, candy
and ice cream dealers and others must
not transact business. Next week the
State AUTHORIZATION association will
be recognized and arrangements made
for bitter fight with the new ,aw and
order league.
The head sawyer at the Holt & Bal
com mill at Oconta, not being very
familiar with a steam-feed carriage,
lost control of it and the carriage shot
back and forth with lightning rapidity
and finally brought up against the
heavy timber at one end of the mill.
The timbers were knocked six inches
out Of place and the carriage broken
Sunday night the portable steam engine
in the sawmll of Fred Liesner, in the
town of Ashippun, Dogde county. was
destroyed By dynamite. The engine
was used winters to drive the mill, and
during the tnreshing season to prOpel
a threshing machine. One night last
season, while used for threshing. the
engine was maliciously disabled by
some person unknown; and it is now
believed that both outrages were perpe-
trated by the operator of a competing
machine.
The Dramas Decline.
If two-thirds Of the successful artists
and popular favorites owe their posi-